Re: Re: Citadis

Hi Pete,

Today, they finally escaped onto track with the SLOPS, the have also finally
had numbers afixed to them, 3001-4.

I rode one out the yard to pick up my own work, they ride well until you hit
a curve, then they really are "two-rooms-and-a-bath" ie, two single truckers
with a centre section, I was thrown off balance and then watched the rear
whiplash out, all this at slow speed exiting the depot. The gong is pathetic
and the car horn sounds like an old VW horn, oh well, progress!

Greg

That was another thing I have against them, one of the French

technicians

was complaining about our track, actually, some of our track is

ordinary,

but most is good) and I made the coment, if you have around 200km of

track

(our part) would'nt you buy a car that will run on it rather than try

and

upgrade all that track so this primadonna can run smoothly on it?

Greg

This is precisely what happened in Boston, where the MBTA bought the Breda
Type 8s without realizing that it wouldn't run on its track without
derailing. About a month ago, a Type 8 derailed all three trucks. A
passenger riding the car commented that the ride just didn't feel right.
The Bredas are now all out of service again.

What did Breda do? Instead of fixing the cars to make them able to run on
the T's tracks, it suggested that MBTA rebuild its entire trackway system.
The MBTA agreed.

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